If we drink, we drink from the fountain that is Christ. The Spirit makes available to us the heart and mind and strength of Christ, the Source of Living Water.
"If anyone is thirsty," says the Lord, "let him come to me, and from his belly will flow streams of living water." All that He requires of us is that we be thirsty. He Himself suffered extreme thirst that we might be filled with the water of eternal life and never again know thirst.
In Sirach 24, the writer says, "I sought to water my own little garden, and suddenly this rivulet of mine became a river, and this stream of mine, a sea. Thus do I send my teachings forth shining like the dawn, to become known far off."
John 4, the story of the woman at the well, tells of Jesus offering the woman a spring of living water, that she not be thirsty again. John 7 tells of those who come to Jesus as having streams of living water flowing from within them. The difference is that those who drink from the spring to satisfy their own thirst then find that same water flowing out of them to others.
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Your family has been a rich river for me and a serene stream for my children. All of these blessings have come to me through you and your love for us. This is what I call Christianity in action.
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